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Still chewing over Bodyguard’s head-spinning series finale? Trying to work out exactly what happened and why? Wondering if phrases like “kompromat”, “you’re doing really well, Nadia” and “maintain pressure on the DMS” will be in your lexicon forever?

Well, now you can disappear even further down writer Jed Mercurio’s rabbit hole with our round-up of some the clues, hints and details you might have missed over the course of the smash hit six-parter:

1. Throw the book at them (episode one)

A fleeting detail but an intriguing one. In the opening scene set on a train, PS David Budd (Richard Madden) was reading a paperback called A Powerful Adversary by Lance Sinclair. No such book exists in real...